Guide to allergy testing - SNP

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Guide to allergy testingAllergy: What is it?Allergic disorders result from an inappropriate, usually IgE-mediated, immune response upon exposure to either environmental or food manifestations of allergy include rhinoconjunctivitis, asthma, eczema, acute urticaria and , such as chronic urticaria, hereditary angioedema and T-cell contact dermatitis (metal allergy ); while clinically similar in some ways, are disease manifests in different ways through life, and the likely causative agents can also change with age (see Table 1 below).

Honey bee venom: Apis mellifera House dust mite: D. farinae House dust mite: D. pteronyssinus Paper wasp venom: Polistes spp. Storage mite: B. tropicalis Yellow jacket wasp: Vespula spp. Common wasp Moulds Alternaria alternata Aspergillus fumigatus Cladosporium herbarum Penicillium notatum Trees Acacia (wattle) Eucalyptus Melaleuca Weeds Common ...

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